The Zeller-Nikolov Climate Controversy and Holmes’ Thermal Enhancement Model

Ned Nikolov and Karl Zeller have sparked a storm of controversy in climate science by publishing a study describing a mathematical model that accurately predicts Global Mean Annual near-surface temperature for all rocky planets in the Solar System, including the Earth. The controversy: the model is accurate irrespective of atmospheric composition, undermining the widely accepted theory of Climate Change driven by the Greenhouse Effect. A further study by Robert Ian Holmes details a comprehensive climate model based on adiabatic compression of gases by gravity, in which changes in the concentration of greenhouse gases have negligible influence on atmospheric warming.